A series of articles by a Yomiuri Shimbun team on the problems faced by hospitals that led to organ transplant operations ...

Yokozuna Terunofuji will sit out a second straight tournament after withdrawing Friday from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Friday, locking in its largest weekly gains since September, although ...

The value of media exported by Japan, such as films, anime and manga, rivals that of steel and semiconductor industries, a ...

Major Japanese carmakers, whose main market is the United States, are wary about possible U.S. policy changes by ...

Rakuten Group has launched an unmanned delivery service of food and other items using robots in Tokyo’s Harumi district and ...

This autumn, while the summer heat lingered, the political sphere of the nation began to move swiftly. Shigeru Ishiba became ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians, like many around the world, are divided on what Donald Trump’s next presidency will bring: Some ...

The 18th annual Japan Writers Conference was held in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 2-3. More than 25 published ...

Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto has reached an agreement with Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine to withdraw his lawsuit in ...

A strange structure is likely to emerge in the Diet in which some opposition parties will support Prime Minister Shigeru ...

The Democratic Party for the People demanded a review of the so-called ¥1.03 million threshold, among other measures to ...